Spectrum Computing

All 62 of them. You can't say it's not a diverse offering. This'll be a tough one to vote on...

3-D Mazeman


Aaargh!


Adventure


Alien Blitz


Asterix And The Magic Cauldron


Asteroids In Space


Barbarian


Bazooka Bill


Blackjack


Castle Of Terror


Chess


Doc The Destroyer


Dodgy Geezers


Double Dragon


Draughts


Eliminator


Enterprise


Fighting Warrior


Fist II: The Legend Continues


Freeway Frog


Fruit Machine


Gyroscope


Hampstead


Hellfire


Hobbit, The


Inspector Gadget And The Circus Of Fear


Judge Dredd


Kings And Queens


Knuckle Busters


Kwah!


Leapfrog


Lord Of The Rings


Lunar Lander


Marble Madness


Marble Madness Deluxe Edition


Meteor Storm


Mordon's Quest


Mugsy


Mugsy's Revenge


Mystery Of Arkham Manor, The


Obliterator


Penetrator


Redhawk


Roadwars


Rock 'N Wrestle


Shadows Of Mordor, The


Sherlock


Sir Lancelot


Space Escape


Spectrum Invaders


Sports Hero


Starion


Street Hassle


Terror-Daktil 4D


Terrormolinos


Terrorpods


Throne Of Fire


Vespozian Affair, The


War In Middle Earth


Way Of The Exploding Fist, The


Wiz


Xenon

Inspector Gadget shouldn't be here, the UK release was scrapped.

StooB wrote: ↑Sun Sep 22, 2019 12:29 pm Inspector Gadget shouldn't be here, the UK release was scrapped.

Ah, but it did see a release elsewhere. My polls aren't purely for British users. In the Ocean poll, we had Emilio Butragueno Futbol, which appears to be a Spain-only release.

Inspector Gadget And The Circus Of Fear may well have been weak, but it did come out, and the most curious thing is that the ZX Spectrum version could be played in a real arcade. Astonishing.

Thanks for telling me though, it's something I've never realised before. I doubt it'll get one vote though!

1. The Way of the Exploding Fist
2. Street Hassle
3. The Mystery of Arkham Manor

Of those played:
1. Gyroscope
2. WOTEF
3. Sir Lancelot

Hobbit/WOTEF to be the likely victor here though. What a prediction!

1. The Way of the Exploding Fist
2. Gyroscope
3. Penetrator

1. Marble Madness Deluxe
2. The Hobbit
3. Starion

1 The Way Of The Exploding Fist
2 Redhawk
3 Penetrator

Penetrator
The Hobbit
Way of the Exploding Fist

1. The Way of the Exploding Fist
2. Starion
3. The Hobbit

Got to be The Hobbit for me as I was blown away by it plus it was a game that we all used to play as a family.

1 - The Hobbit
2 - WOTEF
3 - Penetrator

All 3 are just superb games.

1. Hampstead
2. The Mystery Of Arkham Manor
3. The Hobbit

Very difficult, lots of nice games here and - possibly more pertinently - lots of games that I played a lot back in the 1980s, which always colours my votes on these things. I'm going to go for:

1. Starion
2. Way Of The Exploding Fist
3. Hampstead

Could easily have had Gyroscope, Sherlock, Penetrator and a few others in there, though.

1 :: The Way of the Exploding Fist
2 :: Xenon
3 :: Starion

Xenon is a very enjoyable shoot'em up with some excellent 128K music.
I modified the multiload code to work for Disciple which certainly enhances the experience.

stupidget wrote: ↑Mon Sep 23, 2019 12:55 pm
1 - The Hobbit
2 - WOTEF
3 - Penetrator

All 3 are just superb games.

Dead right - same top 3 for me but in this order:

1. The Hobbit
2. Penetrator
3. WOTEF

I wasn't able to finish The Hobbit without hints (I suspect like most people) but there was something compulsive about it, it was only much later that I understood the concept of how the program worked, quite a way ahead of its successors, which allowed for some bizarre and entertaining activities by the other characters. Looking back I'd say the graphics could have been (and were!) improved, but it didn't really matter to me at the time - just having graphics was cool.

I reckon Penetrator must be my favourite scramble game on the Speccy, and once again it's those small touches that you might not expect in such an early scramble game, like the radar effect on the missiles' trajectory, the fireworks , and leaving the author's level editor tool as part of the game was a stroke of genius.

WOTEF for me was one of the the best early beat 'em ups on the Speccy, and set a decent standard for the ones that followed. I really liked Fist II as well.

Interesting to see fans of Starion, I thought it was pretty good to see those wireframe graphics moving so quickly... But it was so big..! I think once I estimated how long it'd take to collect all the letters from all the zones and worked it out as over a day..(!)

Well, this really has been a battle between Way Of The Exploding Fist and The Hobbit. And by looking at the forum poll results, it appears to be a draw between the two, both grabbing the top spot with 10 votes each.

Hmm... do I go to a tie-breaker poll? I have a better solution, but first, let's check the rest...

Starion is in a distant second place with 3 votes.

Penetrator is fourth with 2 votes.

In joint fifth place, with 1 vote each: Barbarian (not that one); Fist II; Freeway Frog; Gyroscope; Hampstead; Kings And Queens; Kwah!; Lord Of The Rings; Marble Madness Deluxe Edition; Sir Lancelot and Xenon.

Now, there's no need to do the tie-breaker because we can see a strong outright winner in the proportional votes...

Way Of The Exploding Fist, The 25
Hobbit, The 16
Penetrator 8
Hampstead 7
Starion 7
Mystery Of Arkham Manor, The 5
Gyroscope 3
Redhawk 2
Street Hassle 2
Xenon 2
Sir Lancelot 1

Anyway, got to say that I'm taking a break for a week, as I've really got to finish making my Reheated Pixels review video on Double Dragon.

I'll start with some poll discussion threads next Sunday.

1. Marble Madness Deluxe
2. The Hobbit

Well, a tie-breaker poll Exploding Fist vs The Hobbit seems cool!

Missed this one!

I would've voted for Street Hassle. Such a funny game!